Film Review
Earth to Echo
Found-footage sci-fi film is a weak echo of earlier, better efforts
Found-footage, sci-fi film Earth to Echo aims for Spielbergian nostalgia, but is just a faint echo of earlier, better efforts.

Reel World
48 Hour Film Project extends its deadline, Can’t Stop the Serenity lands at KiMo, Matilda screens at South Broadway.

Idiot Box
Rapture, Be Pure
“The Leftovers” on HBO
“Lost” producer explores the Rapture in HBO’s feel-bad supernatural drama “The Leftovers.”

Week in Sloth
This week around the TV dial: “Macy’s 4th of July Fireworks Spectacular,” “Miley Cyrus: Bangerz Tour” and “Steve Austin’s Broken Skull Challenge.”